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Gr 4-Up An exuberant picture-book biography that focuses on Whitman's formative years and his selfless work as a Civil War nurse. Delightfully old-fashioned in design, its oversized pages are replete with graceful illustrations and snippets of poetry. The brilliantly inventive paintings add vibrant testimonial to the nuanced text. Kerley likens the poet's restless energy to the nation itself: "Walt wrote poems as free-ranging as his big robust country. More than anything, he hoped t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Focusing on the Civil War years, this movingly illustrated picture-book biography introduces one of America's most prominent writers to elementary school readers. Beginning with Whitman's work as a printer's apprentice, the story moves quickly through his early writings to his work in hospitals during the Civil War, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, and the poetry that st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More